Hide system partition that shows in explorer but NOT disk management

Hide system partition that shows in explorer but NOT disk management

After installing Windows 10 (upgrade from 8.1) and after a second reboot, the 100MB "SYSTEM" partition shows up in Explorer as the f: drive. It cannot be hidden in Explorer - "Hide Selected Items" - prompts for administrator permission then Error 'the parameter is incorrect'.

In Disk Management the SYSTEM Partition does not have a drive letter assigned, and ALL options are greyed out.

None of the solutions I have found work, seemingly because the partition does not appear as a drive letter to the OS, only to Explorer. How can I hide it?

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A drive letter being present in File Explorer but not in Disk Management is a known weird side-effect of installing Windows 10 upgrade over a Windows 8 installation that was created using some "disk cloning" software. In particular, this effect is known to take place if the Windows 8 installation was created with Paragon HDD-to-SSD migration software.

Paragon software works fine in general, but still they are doing something wrong, which reveals itself when trying to upgrade a "cloned" OS to Windows 10.

I had the same issue and I found no credible solution for it, aside from clean-installing Windows 8.1 directly to SSD from scratch and then upgrading it to Windows 10.

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Yes, of course .. I just made the comment for people like AndreyT who are interested in particular cloning software, to draw their own conclusions as to the source of problems on other machines. It was no accident that I used the words "outside the factory".

Last edited by Makewa; 27 Jul 2016 at 01:42.
Reason: spelling

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diskpartlist volume ====> look for the Volume # that has the size of 100MBselect volume # =====> # found from list aboveremoveexit

This should remove the letter for the 100MB EFI System partition.

It's a glitch with upgrade.

This worked for me too, but upon reboot the system again lists the ESP partition together with the drive letter under my computer. Is there a way to make this adjustment permanent? Here is a screenshot from My Computer and diskmgmt.msc

Last edited by Vesnog; 14 Jan 2018 at 10:42.
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Hi
For some reason Windows 10 is showing the System Reserved partition from Windows 8 in the File Explorer window.
It never did this before.
See Drive D:\
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